Zero CO2 housing competition

Article Abstract:

BRECSU linked with the RIBA to establish an ideas competition for the development of sustainable housing on a riverside site in Newark, England. The competitors were required to consider issues such as housing density, design and car parking. Most of the shortlisted entries offered densities of around 200 habitable rooms per ha, but presented a wide range of architectural solutions. The most common technical approach to the energy requirements was to link superinsulation and air-tightness with passive solar design and mechanical ventilation with heat recovery.

Housing, Environmental aspects, Competitions, Sustainable development

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Taxing environmental controls

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BDP's design for the Inland Revenue offices in Scotland incorporated windowns that could be opened and the individual controlof heat, ventilation and light. A back up ventilation system with humidification is also incorporate. The design of the Inland Revenue building at Nottingham by Michael Hopkins had a less closely specified brief for individual control, and the building depends on buoyancy driven ventilation via the stair towers

Commercial and Institutional Building Construction, Office Buildings, Office construction

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Individualism from a group society

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The work of five Japanese architectural practices is displayed in an exhibition which emphasises the freedom and diversity of Japanese architectural expression. Taro Ashihara and Tao Architects use complex and formal references while Shinichi Ogawa and Koh Kitayama are concerned with minimalism and abstract forms.

Japan, Architecture

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